Clothes-drier.



No. 684,777. Patented 0st. 22, I9OI. W. M. BARNES.

CLUTHES DRIER. (Appumm med rah. 19, 1901.)

(No Model.)

NiTnD STATES` u PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM M. BARNES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-Dalen.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,777, dated october 22, 1901.

Application filed February 19j 1901. Serial No, 47,903. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that 1,' WILLIAM M. BARNES, a citizen of the United States, residing-at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification. v

My invention has for its object a certain improvement inthat class of clothes-driers in which the goods to be dried are carried in and through the drying-room by means of an endless chain or carrier, and has for its object to make the travel of the chain, when a sprocket-chain is used, more certain, and to cause it to leave the driving sprocket-wheel with certainty. I accomplish said purpose by providing a fixed guide tangentiall to the sprocket-Wheel which Will guide the chain and prevent it from passing beyond and around the sprocket-wheel.

Figure I is a longitudinal section of the drying-room. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view on line 3 3, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a section on line 4 4, Fig. 2.

A is the drying-room; B, the heating-coils -in the room; C, the conveyor sprocket-chain,

suspended by the Shanks c from the rollers c', which travel in the inverted track or guideway D. c2 represents the goodsl1olders,which are connected to the chain C by the shank c6. E represents the guide-rollers for the chain, those at one end of the room having teeth and those at the other end having plain faces.

F is the sprocket driving-Wheel from the chain O.` This sprocket driving-wheel F is secured upon the shaft f. At the upper end of this shaft f is secured the projecting arm f', to which is connected the pin or arm f2. This pin projects between the spokes ot' a Worm-Wheel G, loose on the shaft f. G is a Worm driven from the shaft G2. As the chain passes around the driving sprocket-Wheel F, there being a sag or slack beyond the sprocketwheel, this tends to cause the chain to follow the sprocket-wheel beyond the point Where it should leave the sprocket-Wheel. In order to obviate this trouble, I provide the guide H, having the portions h and h' at different levels. This guide is secured to the hanger H',

which surrounds and is secured to the track or guideway D by set-screws h2 or anyother desired means. This hanger is of sufficient height to allow the portion h of the guide to be in alinement With the body of chain C and in the same plane as the driving sprocket- Wheel, and the portion h in alinement With the upper portion of the links of chain C and above the plane of the driving sprocket-Wheel. The guide is connected to the trackway adjacent to the sprocket-Wheel F, so that the portion h overlies the toothed periphery of the sprocket-wheel adjacent to Where the chain properly should leave the sprocket- Wheel. By this arrangement the chain is positively and with certainty guided from the sprocket-wheel at the proper point. I have shown a raised portion h at each end of the portion h of the guide H. The purpose of this is to enable the guide H to be operative from either end to facilitate its use With different machines. Upon the shaft (St2 is the pulley M, which is connected by belt m with pulley M on shaft m', on which latter shaft and within the dryingroom is placed the fan N.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

1. In a drying-machine of the character described, the combination, with the carrierchain and its driving sprocket-Wheel, of a guide extending parallel to the line of travel of the chain and located on the side of the chain nearest to the axis of thewheel, said guide having a portion in the same plane as the Wheel and a portion above the plane of the Wheel and opposite the upper edge of the chain, substantially as described.

2. In a drying-machine of the character described, the combination, with the carrierchain and its driving sprocket-Wheel, of a guide extending parallel to the line of travel of the chain and located. on the side of the chain nearest to the axis of the wheel, said guide having a portion in the same plane'as the Wheel and a portion above the plane of the Wheel and opposite the upper edge of the chain, the last-named portion extending to- Ward the axis of the Wheel and overlying the toothed periphery of the Wheel, substantially as described.

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3. In a drying-machine of the character described, the combination, With the carrierchain and its driving sprocket-Wheel, of a hanger H' in advance of the sprocket-wheel, a guide H" extending parallel to the line of travel of the chain and located on the side of the chain nearest to the axis of the Wheel, said guide having a portion h in the same plane as the wheel and a portion h above the plane of the wheel and opposite the upper edge of the chain.

4.-. In a drying-machine of the character described, the combination, with the carrierchain and its driving sprocket-Wheel, of a hanger H in advance of the sprocket-Wheel, a guide H extending parallel to the line of travel of the chain and located on the side of the chain nearest to the axis of the wheel, said guide having a portion h in the same plane as the wheel, and portions h projecting beyond `the ends of portions h, the por tions h' being above the plane of the Wheel and opposite the upper edge of the chain, substantially as described.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia, on this 13th day of February, 1901.

WILLIAM M. BARNES.

Witnesses:

M. F. ELLs, M. M. HAMILTONa 

